Photo Information

Photograph by J.P. Eaton at 10:30 a.m. on
November 29, 1959

Lava fountain blasts pumice 425 m above the vent
during the 3rd episode. Pieces of spatter as large
as 60 cm in diameter rained down on the road and
shattered the wooden guardrail. Other pieces
punched shallow depressions in the asphalt surface.
On the leeward side of the growing cone, the Crater
Rim road was covered by 6 m of pumice in the late
evening of November 28; 11 hours later, the pumice
was as deep as 25 m!